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Originally Posted by Solicitous
Well bugger me, thanks theducks, I had no real idea. I know a SD card is recognised as a block device, but I would have assumed that Windows would have formatted the card within specifications of the standard. Is this limited to Windows and an inability to handle flash memory correctly?
Learn something everyday.
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I wouldn't worry excessively. A plain FAT format will work fine in nearly every situation. The SD card manufacturers are probably covering themselves, and ensuring the greatest chance of compatibility in every situation.
I have seen examples where one device formats it one way, and then it doesn't work so well in a second device - but then format it in the second device - and it works well in both. Luckily these situations are rare. I have a little folder with about 20 SD cards that I regularly swap between cameras and music players and other things. Some have been formatted in Windows - even set up as bootable devices for my netbook. They are very reliable.
Formatting internal flash memory with an external operating system worries moe more.